Law, custom, and statute in the Muslim world : : studies in honor of Aharon Layish / / editor, Ron Shaham.
This collective volume, in honor of Aharon Layish, deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: sharīʿa , custom, and statute. Some chapters focus on one of these components, other discuss the interplay between two or even all three of them. The geographical cov...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Islamic law and society, v. 28 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, 2007. |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Islamic law and society ;
28. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 263 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / R. Shaham
- Chapter One. The Mukhtaíar of Al-Khiraqī and its place in the formation of Ḥanbalī legal doctrine / Nimrod Hurvitz
- Chapter Two. Law and custom in the Maghrib, 1475–1500: On the disinheritance of women / David S. Powers
- Chapter Three. Women as expert witnesses in pre-modern islamic courts / Ron Shaham
- Chapter Four. Qāḍī, Muftī and ruler: Their roles in the development of islamic law / Miriam Hoexter
- Chapter Five. Ottoman Qāḍīs in DAMASCUS IN THE 16TH–18TH centuries / Michael Winter
- Chapter Six. Patronage, intervention and violence in the legal process in eighteenth-century Salonica and its province / Eyal Ginio
- Chapter Seven. Archaic forms of contract in Max Weber’s theories and in Arab and Somali customary law / Frank H. Stewart
- Chapter Eight. Provincial judges: the Sharī’a judiciary of mid-twentieth-century Yemen / Brinkley Messick
- Chapter Nine. “All of Palestine is holy Muslim Waqf Land”: A myth and its roots / Yitzhak Reiter
- Chapter Ten. Legal reform, interpretive communities and the quest for legitimacy: A contextual analysis of a legal circular / Ido Shahar
- List of contributors / R. Shaham
- Bibliography / R. Shaham
- Index / R. Shaham.